how much rain...well, just suck it in!

I took pictures this morning when I was in the garden. good thing. because things were looking up. But that was then and this is now (as they say). the last picture of that ditch? I could take a picture tonight and it would look the same. But best not to worry about all that. Because there's nothing you can do. We are trying so hard over here. We have customers calling us, emailing us, asking us what is ready? when can they get this and that? There is nothing left to say. We cannot get ahead of the rain. But we'll move forward. Because that's all we can do. In the meantime, here's a couple of shots of the garden this morning, before this latest spate of depressing rain:So you see; it's not that we don't have anything in the garden...its' that we have to haul these things from day to day and week to week because the rain will just not stop. This corn was only fertilized yesterday evening by Will, by hand...it cannot be hilled because now it is too tall for that. The rain has not let us get in there with the tractor.
And now:
I would like to extend a memoriam to the eggplants. This is sad. They were just about killed by the nine inches of rain last week. But they made a valiant effort to survive and MOST were coming back nicely. After today, however, I would lay money on them just giving up. They were, I must say, some of the most beautiful eggplants we have ever had and I bow to their efforts to somehow pull through.
I know this is somewhat depressing; but we will just walk forward. That is all you can do. We had no hail, no tornadoes; things could definitely be worse, right?